Review: MSI X-Slim X340, the Windows version of MacBook Air?

Filed in: Gadgets, Reviews — October 7th, 2009

I am lucky enough to receive a review unit of MSI X-Slim X340 notebook. Is it an ideal, thin & light notebook for you? Read my review below.

MSI X-Slim X340MSI X-Slim X340

At the first glance, MSI X-Slim looks very sexy and stylish. As the name suggests, it is very thin and light, comparable to the famous Apple MacBook Air. The thinnest part (6mm) only 2mm thicker than MacBook Air. Weighing at only 1.3KG, I can hold it up in the air with only one hand!

MSI X-Slim look like MacBook Air but with more input/output ports. It has 2x USB, 1x VGA, 1x gigabit ethernet port, 1x HDMI, 1x build-in SDHC memory card reader, as well as the mic & audio ports.

MSI X-Slim X340MSI X-Slim X340

It’s a 13.4″ widescreen display with built in 1.3M camera and mic.

MSI X-Slim X340 is powered by Intel Core2 Solo CPU and comes with 2GB memory and it is the maximum it can have. You are not able to upgrade system memory with a hard disk size of 250GB.

The 4 cells battery could last for 4 hours using the “Balanced” profile. Not too bad for a thin notebook like MSI X-Slim.

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Oh. By the way, as expected, it does not have an optical drive to read your CD/DVD…

The MSI X-Slim has a big touchpad with single button (press left side for left click, or vice versa). The touchpad does not support multi-touch gestures to zoom in/out or page scrolling. Too bad.

MSI X-Slim X340MSI X-Slim X340

The keyboard feel is only so-so. If you press it too hard, the whole keyboard would be dented a little. Not good.

My two cents

Other than being thin and light, MSI X-Slim works just the same as other notebooks.

Perfect for people who travel a lot and do not want to sacrifice screen size for notebook weight.

The MSI X-Slim X340 would cost you around RM2,800. It is much cheaper than MacBook Air (RM5,599) but less solid and less processing power.

I would like to have MSI X-Slim X340 as my travel notebook but the price tag is, considered high for me.

What do you think? Would you spend RM2.8K for a thin & light notebook, which does not have an optical drive?

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  • wpthemes

    Do you get to keep it?

    Nice laptop by the way..

  • http://cyza.us/ cyza

    I love this laptop. Currently I have 2 (Toshiba and HP Compaq), so even though I liked it, I may have to wait a year or 2…

  • http://www.wptemplates.net/ wp templates

    I am afraid I would not not spend RM$2800 for this notebook.

  • http://www.hongkiat.com/ hongkiat

    Notice it tried real hard but not even close :-)

  • http://www.hackintoshlaptop.com Victor

    Nothing exciting about the X340. For a light and portable notebook, I am using a Dell Mini 10v netbook and it only cost $1399, half as much as the X340. I have Mac OS X running on the Mini 10v and everything works really well.

  • http://www.liewcf.com LiewCF

    well, X340 has bigger screen size at the same weight

  • http://www.liewcf.com LiewCF

    nop. It was a review unit and I returned it.

  • http://macpress.org MacPress

    why they don't design they own

  • peter

    i have the x-slim 340 in black and had the win u100 luxury before. no comparison to that, love the x-slim; it costs in germany about 500€, that`s not much. i think it is every € worth,

    peter

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